Hundreds of doctors have signed a petition asking Spotify to “take action” against Joe Rogan.
Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, the company presently has no misinformation policy.
That quote highlights the problem. If Spotify is a publisher, it does have responsibility for the content it releases. If Spotify is a “platform,” it does not.
Congress is seriously derelict in its duty on this one. This issue should have been handled many years ago.
To me it’s not so clear what Spotify is…other than a ripoff to musicians.
In my mind, it’s clear to me that Twitter is a platform, I’d go the same for Facebook and IG.
Google, so far as search… platform. YouTube…mostly platform…but they do pay people for content even if it’s just royalties. It gets a little murky.
Spotify? Tend to put them more in the publisher category.
I think you’re right that it’s not a binary thing — publisher or platform. Any given service may have elements of both.
My concern is over their ability to censor content. The solution might have to be unique to each service.